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man of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
s part of its ongoing series of
Museum’s Academic Committee.
lectures designed to further
Series organizer Gina Horwitz, WSU
understand the Holocaust, the
Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in associate director of Philanthropy and
Farmington Hills will welcome award- Alumni Relations, said the university
partnered with the HMC to garner
winning professor of history, author
a larger audience for these
and lecturer Dr. Peter Hayes
lectures, part of a series that
as guest speaker at a Sunday,
began in 2013.
June 10, program sponsored
“There’s a fascination with
by Wayne State University’s
the Holocaust, and the goal
(WSU) College of Liberal Arts
is for us to continue to learn
and Sciences, the Guy Stern
about it from scholarly sourc-
Endowment in Exile and
es,” she said. “Dr. Guy Stern, a
Holocaust Studies, the Jewish
revered Wayne State professor
News, the Cohn-Haddow
emeritus who serves as direc-
Center for Judaic Studies and Dr. Peter Hayes
tor of the Harry and Wanda
Hillel of Metro Detroit.
Zekelman International
Why did the Holocaust
Institute of the Righteous at HMC,
happen? Why were Jews persecuted,
helps choose the guest speakers,
instead of another ethnic group? Why
people like Dr. Hayes who can offer
did such a swift extermination occur?
new insights and new information on
Why didn’t the Jews get more help?
Holocaust studies.”
Seemingly unanswerable questions
HMC Events Director Sarah
like these will be fielded by Hayes,
Saltzman said its mission is to engage,
a graduate of Bowdoin College, and
educate and empower through
Oxford and Yale universities and
recently retired Holocaust Educational Holocaust remembrance.
“The partnership between the HMC
Foundation professor at Northwestern
and WSU is integral to honoring Dr.
University, whose newest book, Why?
Explaining the Holocaust, describes the Stern’s achievements and further-
ing the goal of providing educational
circumstances that led to this tragic
lectures about the Holocaust in the
event and challenges the accepted
Metro Detroit community,” Saltzman
explanations for its occurrence. He
said.
has published numerous articles and
“Dr. Hayes is one of the most presti-
books on the Holocaust, and his latest
gious scholars of the history of WWII
work educates readers about the hor-
and the Holocaust. He has a deep, crit-
rors perpetrated by the Nazi regime
ical knowledge of Holocaust literature
on Jews and non-Jews alike.
and English and German history. His
“I’m a child of the 1960s, who grew
up watching the civil rights movement experience teaching college students
about the Holocaust gives him unique
on television,” said Hayes, 71. “I was
insight; his background makes him
appalled by the segregation and racial
eminently qualified for this special
violence and wanted to grasp where
lecture series.”
such hatreds came from. I was drawn
Hayes said, “I am always glad to
back to the cataclysmic example
engage audiences with the com-
of ‘racial’ violence in 20th-century
plexities of and new discoveries in
Europe, namely the Holocaust, and I
Holocaust studies. Mine is a fascinat-
set out to understand how and why
that catastrophe could have occurred.” ing and enduringly relevant field, and
I am grateful for every opportunity to
Although not Jewish (he is an
agnostic of Irish Catholic and Scottish demonstrate that.”
The public is welcome to attend this
Protestant descent), Hayes, who lives
event, featuring a 10:30 a.m. breakfast
in Chicago, has lectured in Denmark,
of bagels and coffee with the lecture
France, Germany, Italy, Poland,
and a Q&A session following at 11:15
Scotland and Mexico, and at more
a.m. There is a $5 charge for HMC
than 50 U.S. colleges and universities
members; $10 for non-members.
as well as many Holocaust memorial
Seating is limited, so RSVP by June 6
and study centers. He supports the
to (248) 536-9612 or rsvp@
work of the Jewish Foundation for
holocaustcenter.org. •
the Righteous and serves as chair-

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